Chair Betsy Hine called the meeting
to order at 8:33 a.m.She noted the Library Faculty Assembly (LFA)
meetings will start promptly at 8:30;
efforts will be made to hold the meeting to an hour.

Ms. Hine recommended a few changes
in the agenda sent out before this meeting.She recommended adding back in the LFA Chair’s Announcement/Report.She also wondered whether recognition award
should be part of the agenda anymore.Cheryl
Bealmear noted that last year, there was a place for comment from support staff
members.Ms. Hine agreed to that
inclusion.She further stated the quorum
will be six persons.The LFA approved
the altered agenda structure as the official agenda for this year.

II.Approval
of minutes LFA 04/05-01, LFA 04/05-01a, the election and then re-election of
LFA members.Elizabeth Lorenzen moved
approval of both minutes in one motion; Juliet Kerico seconded.The motion passed.

III.Recognition
of Award Winners

None submitted.

IV.Chair’s
announcements/report

Ms. Hine noted every LFA member now
has a notebook, distributed at this meeting.There’s also one notebook for the three support staffers; adjustments
will be made after the support staff elections.The notebook contains a copy of the constitution approved by the ISU
Board of Trustees.This is the document
we need to go by, she said.The notebook
also contains places for minutes, committee work, the old organization chart of
the LFA, standing rules for the

LFA, and duties of members and
chairs of various committees.The entry
for the Performance-Based Salary Adjustment Review Committee says it’s “in process.”It needs
to be cleaned up.The PBSARC and
Promotion, Tenure and Leaves Committee have been combined to form the Personnel
Committee.There’s paper in the back and post-its for markup.

LFA meetings will be the first
Thursday of each month at 8:30.The Library Executive Committee (LEC) will
meet sometime in the week before to set the agenda.The LEC will sometimes meet electronically,
sometimes in person.

Everyone present introduced
themselves.LFA officers were pointed
out.A welcome was extended to the new
people.Ms. Hine noted all meetings are
open except when personnel issues are discussed.

V.15-minute
open discussion

None.

VI.Remarks
of the Dean of Library Services

Ms. McCallister also extended a
welcome to everyone.She said she had
nothing specific to report.Ongoing
developments are being covered in the Department Heads meetings minutes and in
the Monday Messages.There will be a
quarterly all-staff meeting after the Extravaganza; more on that later.

VII.Report
of the Faculty Senator

Rolland McGiverin, who’s out ill
today, sent a report earlier by email.Ms.
Hine asked members to note especially the confirmation of standing sitting
committee members.

VIII.Remarks from the Library Support Staff Representative

Ms. Bealmear noted the Library
Association (LA) – which is for everyone on the library – will have elections
soon.Chris Nkongola and Juliet Kerico
noted that there was only one response to three emails calling for nominations
for LA officers.The LA elections will
be held September 24 at 2:00 p.m.Deb Taylor said the LA is a group within
library that sends cards to sick library employees as well as flowers to hospitalized
employees; it hosts an annual Christmas party, a summer party, and parties for
retirements or for persons who are leaving the library. Dues are $10.00 per year.Ms. Bealmear said everyone’s welcome to the dinners,
members or not.The LA also tries to
have a party during spring break.The LA
Social Committee plans these events.The
Association does student events, too – one for the holidays and one for the Student
Assistant Recognition Award ceremony.It
also helps with the Support Staff Recognition Award ceremony.Generally, she said, anything that needs
people to set up something socially can get help from LA.

IX.Committee
Reports – none because some of the committees haven’t been formed yet.

A.Library
Administrative Affairs Committee

B.Library
Faculty Affairs Committee

C.Personnel
Committee

D.Senate/University Committee reports

X.Old
Business

None.

XI.New
Business

A.Related
to Library Faculty issues

Ms. Hine noted here’s where
charges will be made to various committees.She added the Personnel Committee is a combination of the old Promotion,
Tenure and Leaves Committee and the Performance-Based Salary Adjustment Review
Committee; the documents need to be revised to reflect this new
arrangement.

Karen Evans put forward the
nominations.

For Library Administrative Affairs
Committee (LAAC): Kathy Gaul, Juliet Kerico, Elizabeth Lorenzen, and Chris
Mehrens.There will also be a support
staff representative once he or she is elected.The Assembly approved all the nominees.

Ms. Hine asked Ms. Lorenzen to
convene LAAC; she also asked Ms. Evans to convene the LFAC.The committees need to elect chairs and
secretaries in the next two weeks.Personnel
and Grievance will also be meeting to elect officers.

Charges:

Ms. Hine recommended that
committee members consider the responsibilities of their committees.Charges for the committees can come from
nearly anywhere; they are sent to the Library Executive Committee for
presentation to the LFAC or LAAC.She
asked that all charges be in writing.

She also presented several written
charges:

1.For
LEC: a charge to “Review, with input from all standing committees, a
form/mechanism for keeping track of charges for each year.”Date needed: Next LFA meeting October 7, 2004.

2.For
LAAC: a charge to “Review LAAC areas of responsibility in Faculty Manual and
work with Exec Committee on general charges for the year.”Date needed:Next LFA Exec Committee meeting (week of September 27) for presentation
at the next LFA meeting October
7, 2004.

3.For
LFAC: a charge to “Review LFAC areas of responsibility in Faculty Manual and
work with Exec Committee on general charges for the year.”Date needed: Next LFA Exec Committee meeting
(week of September 27) for presentation at the next LFA meeting October 7, 2004.

4.For
LFAC: a charge to “Make a list of the documents in the Library Faculty Manual
that are (1) in the process of being revised, (2) need revision, (current as of
_____); or have some other status.”Date
needed: Next LFA Exec Committee meeting (week of September 27) for presentation
at the next LFA meeting October
7, 2004.

Ms. Hine also noted the Perpetual
LFA Calendar includes a reference to the ad hoc committee on control and review
of standing rules; she thinks this work can be done by the LEC.

B.Related
to general library issues

Ms. Hine noted we no loner have a
Library Steering Group (LSG); we do have a Department Heads meeting.She wondered if there could be a report from
those meetings at LFA.Ms. McCallister
responded that department heads are supposed to report the proceedings of the meetings
to their staff; it may be redundant to report it twice.Ms. Hine suggested leaving it on the agenda
in case we have general issues that come up; Ms. McCallister said she had no
problem with that.

There was some question about the
recognition of award winners; it was decided to leave that item in the
agenda.